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First we learned that Billy the Kid was not shot by Pat Garrett, but lived to an old age. Now anthropologist Sergey Gorbenko says Joan of Arc was not burned at the stake, but lived to be 57 years old.

Gorbenko examined skulls from the French royal family of Ludwig XI and found that the skull that was thought to belong to the king was actually a woman’s. It wasn’t the skull of his wife Charlotte, because she died at age 38 and the skull belonged to a 55-57-year-old woman. He says, “The woman whose skull had been mistaken for that of King Ludwig XI for 100 years turned out to be Joan of Arc herself.”
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Colin Andrews reports that he took this photo at an approximately one minute exposure, using the ?B? setting at F11-16 on a Chinon 35 mm camera. Film was 100 ASA Fuji, high definition film.

The object in the picture was not noticed until the film was developed. The object appears between the lightning flashes and the camera, and is thus probably too small to be an airplane.

Any thoughts on what it might be would be appreciated, and should be sent to whitley@strieber.com.

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The greatest environmental catastrophe in recorded history is now unfolding. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has announced that the North Atlantic Oscillation is failing, and, along with it, the Gulf Stream. The Institute has observed “the largest and most dramatic oceanic change ever measured in the era of modern instruments,” in an analysis of Atlantic ocean currents from pole to pole. Woods Hole has found that salinity levels are changing in ways that they have changed in the past leading to periods of abrupt climate change. Polar waters are becoming far less saline, meaning that the “heat pump” effect that draws warm water north is failing.
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Athletes from countries around the world are getting ready to compete in the August, 2004 Olympics in Greece, and terrorists from around the world are getting ready to stage attacks there. Some of these terrorist groups are even cooperating with each other.

Western intelligence says these groups have been gathering and exchanging information, so anti-terrorism agencies have gotten together to share information too. Stylianos Syros, Greece’s counter-terrorism director, says, “We have an absolute need for an exchange of information between our services and to monitor and control the movements of these persons because the Olympic Games due to take place in August could be the target of anarchists.”
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